Lau Anna S, McCabe Kristen M, Yeh May, Garland Ann F, Wood Patricia A, Hough Richard L
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563, USA.
J Fam Psychol. 2005 Sep;19(3):367-75. doi: 10.1037/0893-3200.19.3.367.
The authors tested the acculturation gap-distress hypothesis by examining whether parent-adolescent acculturation gaps were associated with greater conflict and youth conduct problems among 260 high-risk Mexican American families. The authors operationalized acculturation gaps in 2 ways: parent-youth mismatches in acculturation style, and parent-youth discrepancies in acculturation toward both mainstream and heritage cultures. Acculturation gaps were common, but results of hierarchical regression analyses indicated that parent-youth discrepancies in acculturation toward mainstream and heritage cultures were not related to increased conflict or youth conduct problems. Conduct problems were no higher in families in which the adolescent was more aligned with mainstream culture than the parent. Unexpectedly, the authors found more youth conduct problems in families in which the youth was more aligned with traditional culture than the parent. The results call into question the assumption that the more rapid acculturation of adolescents to American culture inevitably leads to distress in minority families.
作者通过研究在260个高危墨西哥裔美国家庭中，父母与青少年的文化适应差距是否与更大的冲突及青少年行为问题相关，来检验文化适应差距困扰假说。作者通过两种方式对文化适应差距进行操作化定义：文化适应方式上的父母与青少年不匹配，以及在对主流文化和传统文化的文化适应方面父母与青少年的差异。文化适应差距很常见，但分层回归分析结果表明，在对主流文化和传统文化的文化适应方面，父母与青少年的差异与冲突增加或青少年行为问题无关。青少年比父母更认同主流文化的家庭中，行为问题并不更高。出乎意料的是，作者发现，青少年比父母更认同传统文化的家庭中，青少年行为问题更多。这些结果质疑了这样一种假设，即青少年更快地适应美国文化不可避免地会给少数族裔家庭带来困扰。
